A correspondent writes to an Auckland paper, complaining that it is not only the city people who have to submit to the 11 sweating ” system. He says that in Auckland the grocers sell butter at sixpence a pound, not because they can sell more by this than they could in a regular way, but to make the price act as a •• draw ” for other things. Thus the small producers are forced tb accept prices for which there is no necessity, and while a penny or so per pound would make little difference to the consumer it is of vast importance to the producer,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 222, 15 November 1888, Page 3
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103Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 222, 15 November 1888, Page 3
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